Health & Fitness
Aurora: Tools For Processing Traumatic News
We are not immune to the effects of secondhand trauma from incidents like what took place in Aurora, Colorado. NLP can support your emotional wellness by gaining control over your inner world.
Even here in the San Francisco Bay Area, we are not immune to the effects of secondhand trauma. Aurora for many of us brings up our worst fears and anxieties. Loss of control, fear of the unknown and strangers, fear of loss of loved ones... What could be more innocent than going to a movie theater with your friends or family or alone for a few hours to lose oneself in the fantasy on the screen with a new action-packed adventure? And suddenly the sting of tear gas, bullets, blood and guts flying everywhere.
How do we return to a state of calm and inner peace? Without having to learn meditation or yoga or chi gong, but to gain immediate control over our inner state, to enter into a state of inner peace and resource fullness by gaining direct control over our inner world and making the unconscious conscious, NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) has literally hundreds of techniques and approaches to assist in processing the sounds, words, voices, images and feelings to acquire or regain inner peace and tranquility, or have it as a new state. Whatever comes up is grist for the mill.
For example, imagine yourself as being on the top seat on the highest point on a roller coaster looking straight down. Notice the adrenaline rush. Now compare that to watching yourself from the position of sitting on a park bench watching yourself on a roller coaster. Being in the scene is more powerful viscerally than watching yourself from a distance in the roller coaster seat. This is an example of how you can use whatever comes up as the material to work on and evolve yourself. This example shows how you can use NLP to lessen traumatic feelings by stepping out of a situation, and observing yourself from a distance to lessen the impact of the feelings.
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Recovery from secondhand trauma can be helped by an array of therapies. One session with a professional can help one regain a sense of peace. Multiple sessions can give a person a whole new way of viewing and navigating the world. The emphasis in NLP is how we create our reality on a moment to moment basis rather than why. With all the therapeutic services available in the Bay Area, it's never too late to have a happy childhood!
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